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Newspaper
Butler Herald
Location
Butler, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Jul 03, 1952
Page
3
Advice for hot weather poultry care emphasizes consistent laying mash, ample water, ventilation, and parasite control. Key steps include 4 inches of hopper space per hen, up to half a gallon of laying feed per 100 hens at noon, two 8 to 5 gallon waterers per 100 hens, open housing for ventilation, frequent lice checks, and daily removal of broody hens and culls. Even with heat, proper feeding and water can sustain egg production and profit.
A letter to the editor argues against Emory discontinuing its journalism school noting that aspiring reporters once learned in newspaper offices. The piece recalls Henry Grady and Clark Howell Sr. and contrasts old training with modern schools at the University of Georgia and Emory.
Glynn County marks the 175th anniversary of its 1777 founding with a week of Fourth of July events in Brunswick. Officials from Burke Camden Chatham Effingham Liberty Richmond and Wilkes counties invited to a parade and party. The Golden Isles golf tournament runs July 3 to 5 at Brunswick Country Club drawing vacationers to the coast.
Exhumed remains of H. C. Barwick of Macon yield about six and a half grains of arsenic, triple the amount needed to kill. State criminologist Dr. Herman Jones notes organs including kidneys liver stomach and brain contained poison. Barwick died June 1 at the Dublin VA hospital and was buried June 3. His wife Odessa Barwick is jailed on a murder warrant and a habeas petition seeks her release. A Treutlen county coroner's jury authorized the autopsy conducted last week.
Ben B Murphey 68 dies at his Roberta home after an extended illness. Funeral held at Roberta Baptist Church with Rev. R L Harris and Rev H E Rogers of Winder officiating. Interment at Benevolence Church Cemetery. Webb Bax ton Funeral Home in charge. Survived by wife four daughters five sons and several siblings.
Six Crawford county 4 H{rs will represent at the District Project Achievement meet in Americus from July 8 to 10. Shirley Bennett and Lucille Spillers enter bread making and public speaking with others in senior and junior dress revues and muffin contests. Bobby Ray and Wayne Andrews enter tractor maintenance and junior forestry demonstrations.
Albany June 26 City Attorney A D Durden sued Jas H Gray publisher of the Albany Herald Publishing Company for 300000 alleging libel He seeks 100000 general damages and 50000 punitive damages in each of two cases The suit cites an editorial titled An Answer to Some Hog wash and sets a September term hearing in Dougherty County Superior Court
Supt. R. L. Sheets announces the Roberta city schools faculty for 1952-53. Grammar school teachers include Lula Aultman Roberta Champion Lillie Maude Andrews Annie Kate Andrews and others. High school staff lists T. C. Glover Pauline McAfee Lois Griner Mildred Webb and additional teachers.
The Columbus Enquirer announces Fulton Lewis Jr a renowned columnist and radio commentator will write a five day a week column for the Editorial Page starting Monday. The Washington Report will run Monday through Friday weekly and accompany Lewis popular Mutual Network broadcasts heard on WGBA from 7 to 7 15 p m daily.
Funeral for Howell Clayton Elliott 84 a Crawford county native who died at Milledgeville hospital was held at Milner cemetery. He is survived by three nieces Mrs Robert Hardy Ft Valley and Mrs Charlie Davis Knoxville Ga and three nephews H S Elliott Augusta Freeman Elliott and Roy Elliott Lizella.
In Macon on Saturday a thermometer reportedly soared to 120 degrees before exploding. An anxious Dasher Oil Co. caller on Houston Ave. said the blistering afternoon sun caused the mercury to rise all day, peaking around 4 p.m. before the device failed.
The State Personnel Board adopts adjusted salary scales for 9 000 employees under the State Merit System. Director H Swain says the plan costs just over 700 000 dollars and averages a 3.1 percent raise. Monthly increases reach up to 38 dollars. many receive 2 to 5 dollars more.
In Gadsden Alabama on July 1 an 18 year old sailor serving 35 years was led handcuffed to a baptism into the Church of God. Deputies escorted James Dp Higgs Roanoke Virginia and three other prisoners to the ceremony. Higgs had been convicted June 16 of the fatal shooting of Marine Pvt Clyde Jas Shapeley 19 of Atlanta.
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